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Crystallographic image processing (CIP) techniques may be utilized in scanning probe microscopy (SPM) to glean information that has been obscured by signals from multiple probe tips. This may be of particular importance for scanning…

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A simple, reliable method for preparation of bulk Cr tips for Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) is proposed and its potentialities in performing high-quality and high-resolution STM and Spin Polarized-STM (SP-STM) are investigated. Cr…

Precision in identifying nanometer-scale device-killer defects is crucial in both semiconductor research and development as well as in production processes. The effectiveness of existing ML-based approaches in this context is largely…

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We demonstrate a multi-beam scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) imaging that integrates down-sampling with super-resolution image reconstruction via a compressive sensing framework. A custom condenser aperture with six randomly…

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Recently it has been shown that precise dose control and an increase in the overall acquisition speed of atomic resolution scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) images can be achieved by acquiring only a small fraction of the…

A custom double-lamella method is presented for electrochemically etching tungsten wire for use as tips in scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). For comparison, tips were also manufactured in-house using numerous conventional methods and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-06 J. K. Schoelz , P. Xu , S. D. Barber , D. Qi , M. L. Ackerman , G. Basnet , C. T. Cook , P. M. Thibado

Quality control of assembly processes is essential in manufacturing to ensure not only the quality of individual components but also their proper integration into the final product. To assist in this matter, automated assembly control using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Jonas Werheid , Shengjie He , Aymen Gannouni , Anas Abdelrazeq , Robert H. Schmitt

Molecular orbital (MO) is one of the most fundamental concepts for molecules, relating to all branches of chemistry, while scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) has been widely recognized for its potential to measure the spatial distribution…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-08-01 Yu Zhu , Renjie Xue , Hao Ren , Yicheng Chen , Wenjie Yan , Bingzheng Wu , Sai Duan , Haiming Zhang , Lifeng Chi , Xin Xu

Scanning tunneling microscope (STM) has presented a revolutionary methodology to the nanoscience and nanotechnology. It enables imaging the topography of surfaces, mapping the distribution of electronic density of states, and manipulating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-07 Wonhee Ko , Chuanxu Ma , Giang D. Nguyen , Marek Kolmer , An-Ping Li

With the invention of scanning probe techniques, direct imaging of single atoms and molecules became possible. Today, scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) routinely provides angstrom-scale image resolution. At the same time, however, STM…

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The usage of medical image data for the training of large-scale machine learning approaches is particularly challenging due to its scarce availability and the costly generation of data annotations, typically requiring the engagement of…

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Structured illumination microscopy (SIM) has become an important technique for optical super-resolution imaging because it allows a doubling of image resolution at speeds compatible for live-cell imaging. However, the reconstruction of SIM…

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The search for topological superconductors has recently become a key issue in condensed matter physics, because of their possible relevance to provide a platform for Majorana bound states, non-Abelian statistics, and fault-tolerant quantum…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-09-29 Lars Elster , Christian Platt , Ronny Thomale , Werner Hanke , Ewelina M. Hankiewicz

Lightwave-driven scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) at near-IR frequencies promises an unprecedented combination of atomic spatial resolution and temporal resolution approaching the attosecond range. To achieve this goal, high-sensitivity…

Image Super-Resolution (SR) provides a promising technique to enhance the image quality of low-resolution optical sensors, facilitating better-performing target detection and autonomous navigation in a wide range of robotics applications.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Fan Wang , Jiangxin Yang , Yanlong Cao , Yanpeng Cao , Michael Ying Yang

Data-driven machine learning methods have the potential to dramatically accelerate the rate of materials design over conventional human-guided approaches. These methods would help identify or, in the case of generative models, even create…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-28 Victor Fung , Shuyi Jia , Jiaxin Zhang , Sirui Bi , Junqi Yin , P. Ganesh

Simulation of atomic resolution image formation in scanning transmission electron microscopy can require significant computation times using traditional methods. A recently developed method, termed plane-wave reciprocal-space interpolated…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-07-07 Alan Pryor , Colin Ophus , Jianwei Miao

Training of semantic segmentation models for material analysis requires micrographs and their corresponding masks. It is quite unlikely that perfect masks will be drawn, especially at the edges of objects, and sometimes the amount of data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Matias Oscar Volman Stern , Dominic Hohs , Andreas Jansche , Timo Bernthaler , Gerhard Schneider

Most existing super-resolution methods do not perform well in real scenarios due to lack of realistic training data and information loss of the model input. To solve the first problem, we propose a new pipeline to generate realistic…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-30 Xiangyu Xu , Yongrui Ma , Wenxiu Sun